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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 156
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 78°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 29mph\Gusts: 11mph
Ave. High: 76° Record High: 87°
(2006) Ave. Low: 38° Record
Low: 25° (1943)
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Observances Today:
America's Cup
Apple II Day
Children's Awareness Memorial Day
Doughnut Day or Donut Day
Festival of Popular Delusions Day
Horseradish Days
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Cancer Survivors Day
National Moonshine Day
Positive Power of Humor and
Creativity Days
UN World Environment Day
World Environment Day
Constitution Day (Denmark)
Day of the Rice God (Japan)
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week: 1-8
Great American Brass Band Week: 4-7
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1846 - Telegraph
line opens between Phila & Balt
1855 - Anti-foreign
anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
1917 - 10
million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1921- Ku Klux Klan burned
a fiery cross at Telegraph Pass near Yuma. The Yuma Klan was established in
1921; they held their meetings at Somerton, Arizona, about ten miles southwest
of Yuma.
1937 - Henry
Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 - A
synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company.
1944
- General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1945 - USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme
authority over Germany
1953 - US Senate rejects China People's Republic
membership to UN
1957 - NY narcotics
investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating
drugs by athletes
1965 - "Wooly
Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
1968 - 12:16AM
PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
1976 - Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion
damage (14 die)
1981 - AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US
Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men in
Los Angeles
2013 – 1st article based
on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian
Newspaper in the UK
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Today’s World Events through History
1661 - Isaac
Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1798 - The
Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster
is defeated
1882 - Storm
& floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow
women's suffrage
1970 - The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland,
imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a
march by women breaches the British Army cordon
1976 - After a suspected republican bombing kills 2
Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a
gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
1988 - Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th
anniversary
2003 - A severe
heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed
50°C (122°F) in the region
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another windy day that is blowing in a rain storm that should be
here tomorrow. Not complaining…we need the moisture.
Took a nice long walk before the wind hit. Nice! Forest is
beautiful at this time of year.
Chinese government steals personal data of 4 million Federal
employees. Hmmm After working with OPM for over 3 decades, this is surprising.
They always kept their stuff close to the chest. I guess everything is open to
just about anyone.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
sundial is a timepiece that has the fewest number of moving parts. Which
timepiece has the most moving parts?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
The Chinese government "encouraged" the country's
tallest female basketball player to marry the country's tallest man. Their
child was Yao Ming.
Robin Williams was reportedly an avid gamer who played games such
as Call of Duty, Zelda, Portal, and Battlestations Pacific. His daughter Zelda
was named after the video game.
Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she
declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
…Cool Facts…
In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll
- and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the
animators.
Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios
had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Ornamental light fixtures for the downtown area are under
discussion with the light company. The current contract that is about to expire
calls for 10 candle power at the corners. For the past two years the new
Mazda lamps have made better lighting possible. The Flagstaff Light Company
made this improvement at its own expense. Now new lights with 200 candlepower
have become possible without an increase in cost!
…Harper’s Index…
1922 –year in
which the first female US senator took office
2008 – year in
which female senator first used the Senate swimming pool
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Jack London's Call of the Wild reportedly earned the
author a single, flat-fee payment of only $2,000.
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2 jokes for the day
I never knew what real happiness was until I
got married..
..then it was too late
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A policeman brought four boys before a judge.
"They were causing an awful lot of commotion at the zoo, your Honor,"
he said.
"Boys," said the judge sternly, "I never like to hear reports of
juvenile delinquency.
Now I want each of you to tell me your name and what you were doing
wrong."
"My name is George," said the first boy, "and I threw peanuts
into the elephant pen."
"My name is Pete," said the second boy, "and I threw peanuts
into the elephant pen."
"My name is Mike," said the third boy, "and I threw peanuts into
the elephant pen."
"My name is Peanuts," said the fourth boy.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
This sounds perfectly safe. A newly-released headset hopes to wake
people up or calm them down by manipulating the electricity in their brain. The
'Thync' costs $299 and has just been released to the public. It provides
"calm or energy on demand", the company says, by using
"neurosignalling" to activate nerves and change people's state of
mind. It is a small, white plastic triangle that you tape to your forehead.
Then you control it with your phone to send special zaps that either wake you
up or calm you down. If you thought texting while driving was bad...wait until
you accidentally send a 'zap' to your brain while you're on the expressway. In
addition to "calm" and "energy on demand" there is also a
setting for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
word "Checkmate" in Chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah
Mat," which means "the King is dead."
The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. This reflects its
ability to move quickly in straight lines, but not leap over obstacles. During
the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually
modified to look more like the turret of a castle.
The knight's role has been stable over time. Even in the earliest versions of
the game, it represented the cavalry and had the unique ability to leap over
its opponents.
Blindfold
chess is real and documented in world records. It is as it sounds: a player
makes all of his or her moves without looking at a board. Usually there is a
"middle man" of sorts to give and receive moves for the game.
Blindfold chess is an impressive skill that many stronger chess players
possess. It certainly requires a keen ability to see the board clearly, which
can get difficult after many moves. The record was set in 1960 in Budapest by
Hungarian Janos Flesch, who played 52 opponents simultaneously while blindfolded
- he won 31 of those games.
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Birthday’s Today
86 - Katherine Helmond, actress (Soap, Coach)
66 - Ken Follett,
Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle)
64 - Suze Orman,
American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
59 - Kenny G
(Kenneth Bruce Gorelick), saxophonist (Duotones)
46 - Brian McKnight, American musician
44 - Mark
Wahlberg, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie
Nights, The Departed), born in Boston, Massachusetts
36 - Pete Wentz,
American musician (Fall Out Boy)
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Remembered for being born today
1895-1972@77 - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong
Cassidy)
1723-1790@67 - Adam
Smith, Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
1887-1948@61 - Ruth
Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1718-1779@61 - Thomas
Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1850-1908@57 - Pat
Garrett, American Western lawman
1932-1981@49 - Christy Brown, Dublin novelist (My Left
Foot, Down All the Days)
1878-1923@45 - [Francisco]
Pancho Villa, Mexico,
revolutionary/guerrilla leader
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Historical Obits Today
Ronald
Reagan, 40th US President, Gov CA, actor-2004@93
Ray
Bradbury, American author-2012@91
Mel Tormé,
American singer, composer, actor, stroke-1999@73
Conway
Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), in surgery-1993@59
O. Henry (William
Sydney Porter), American author-cirrohis-1910@47
Stephen
Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), long illness-1900@28
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Brain Teasers Answers
An Hourglass
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
